In a world swallowed by sand and silence, a mother’s love is the only power strong enough to defy the void.

For a hundred years, the oasis of Aetha has been a miracle in the Desolate Waste, a paradise created by a fallen star and the will of a boy named Emilius. It is a sanctuary where the broken come to be healed, protected from the wars and tyranny of the outside world.

Piu Leigh, a battle-scarred veteran, thought she had finally found peace within Aetha’s borders. But when she gives birth to a child of silence, a boy born without a face, a living void that defies nature, her world shatters. While others see a monster that must be mourned, Piu feels a pulse of life calling to her from the darkness. Convinced her son is not dead but lost, she prepares to leave her sanctuary and walk back into the hell she once escaped to bring him home.

But the world outside Aetha is changing. In the iron halls of the citadel, Queen Seraphiel has let an ancient corruption take root in her soul. Driven by a twisted desire to protect her own unborn child, the Queen transforms her realm into a machine of cruelty, awakening a power that threatens to unmake reality itself.

As a mother’s hope clashes with a tyrant’s fear, the fate of the world hangs in the balance.

Epic, heartbreaking, and fiercely original, Mother of Aetha is a dark fantasy about the terrifying lengths a parent will go to for their child, and the light that endures even in the deepest shadow.

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